"I'm not racist because I hate everybody equally, especially Jewish people"

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Fri, 2010-11-12 13:41

E.Tamaran

And so Jersey Shore comes to canada, except it's called Lake Shore. The quote in the title comes from one of the characters. I can't think of anything less worthy of watching this year. Next year will be worse...

Quote:

Lake Shore -- described as Canada's answer to MTV's popular Jersey Shore --promises viewers a healthy dose of drama as it follows eight "erratic and intoxicating" twenty-something Torontonians living in the same house, cavorting around the city's nightclubs, while "exploring their sexualities."

The show's format mimics that of Jersey Shore, the wildly successful U.S. show about the lives of eight young Italian Americans who seem concerned only with drinking, partying, having sex and insulting each other.

Watch the Lake Shore trailer

But while Lake Shore is poised to begin production as early as next week, media and advertising experts say the program's search for a major network backer could be in jeopardy thanks to a publicity-grabbing trailer posted on YouTube in which one of the show's characters expresses her hatred for Jews.

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Anti+Jewish+remark+could+stall+show+start/3816012/story.html#ixzz155wkckAb

Fri, 2010-11-12 14:21

Cueball

Real idiots like that are a kind of national treasure.

Fri, 2010-11-12 14:45

Polunatic2

Maybe the Calgary neo-nazis will drop in to Long Branch one day as guest racists.

Fri, 2010-11-12 14:46

6079_Smith_W

Plus, when idiots like that try to take real hatred and turn it into entertainment they never get it right, and it just winds up being contrived.

Anyone who said something like that and really meant it would have said something a bit stronger than "especially Jewish people".

I'd rather not see anything like this on TV at all, but pulling punches and trying to clean it up and make it more palatable is worse than showing hatred for what it is.

As for turning it into a joke, Carroll O'Connor did that trip better and more effectively 35 years ago.

Fri, 2010-11-12 15:43

Kloch

Just the other day I was thinking how nice it would be to make a TV show about my neighbourhood. Guess I'll file this under: be careful what you wish for.

Sun, 2010-11-14 02:32

milo204

now the question is, will the coalition to combat anti semitism be on this or not? If they're really concerned with anti semitism and not just criticism of israel, then there would be no excuse for freaking out over apartheid week in the way they did, but not registering their disagreement with this show.

Sun, 2010-11-14 14:29

Cytizen H

this reminds me of an experience in Europe where someone in a small town who i met (knowing that I am Jewish) said to me "So, you should know that I am an anti-semite... but I hope that doesn't mean we can't be friends". Aaaah, the stupidity of bigots.

Sun, 2010-11-14 16:13

Stargazer

I read a piece on the whole "Lake Shore" deal yesterday. These people were told to be offensive. They were told what to say, apparently for TV ratings. Some of the people who were in audition experienced this themselves and dropped out. One man, who was from Jamaica, had to say he was really from Guyana. It fit better with the show's so-called "diversity".

As much as people try to paint this like Jersey Shore, Lake Shore is straight off incredibly offensive in ways that JS is not.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/890225--pushed-into-race-bashing-lak...

But two former Lake Shore cast hopefuls who were among the show’s top 25 candidates before being cut say they felt pressured during the audition process to make racist and sexual comments in order to secure a role on the show.

Roxanne “Persia” Ramedani, a 20-year-old York University student, said Lake Shore’s producers asked her to audition after seeing her in a YouTube video speaking out against the show’s initial premise, which focused on following the lives of young people of Middle-Eastern descent.

Ms. Ramedani said alarm bells started to ring when she received a questionaire from the producers asking if she had a dislike for other nationalities.

Sun, 2010-11-14 20:15

laine lowe laine lowe's picture

milo204 wrote:

now the question is, will the coalition to combat anti semitism be on this or not? If they're really concerned with anti semitism and not just criticism of israel, then there would be no excuse for freaking out over apartheid week in the way they did, but not registering their disagreement with this show.

They are not about racism. Their sole purpose is to protect Israeli policy.

The biggest targets of racism in Canada are Aboriginal people and immigrants of colour.

Mon, 2010-11-15 12:52

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Snert

I find both of these shows a bit puzzling. Why would I want to watch a show about the kind of people that I would generally have considered vapid assholes when I was growing up? It's great that the Canadian version can pretend to be multicultural, but do they just go out and find the most shallow, unintelligent people they can find and set them up with a case of Bacardi and a hot tub?